In my previous post I have stated that I have finally joined an events company with LIANG and ALAM ( from 8tv’s YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE ? ) . We are currently building a website together and all of us need new promo videos for our clients . I was stuck in a pinch . ALAM had his 8TV clips in his arsenal , while Liang has his own MTV videos . All I had were YOUTUBE postings filmed by my friends and people I do not know off ! ALAMAK !

Me, Liang , Alam and Christien New during our very 1st group meet up at Christien’s office in Cheras

I asked Josh Lim ( Advertlets CEO and my good friend ) to help me out . He graciously agreed and I taught I got it together . I have a SONY DVD Video Recorder and after looking at it’s quality , I thought that it was sufficient enough …How blardee wrong was I on that would be known in a while . Since there were a few gatherings in hand , I made full use of it to film a short clips of me performing . I got help from many of my friends , Josh of course , Thomas , Yvonne , Hannah Tan , Smashpop , Rames , Christien New and many others . Quite a number of local celebrities are involved in it , while already divulging that Hannah & Christien are in , I’ll keep the rest as surprises for later on .

Ras Angela , Josh , Daniel Tan and Me .The core of Advertlets team . Ras was the contestant of Star Celeb whom I helped out for the talent show and also my highschool senior ( This was taken today at Mid Valley ! )

My first clip was help with Thomas , who was supposedly organizing a bloggers meet up . He told me ` About 10 to 15 people will be coming ‘ ….Only 3 came , and I was somehow the 1st the designated venue …Getting that out of the way , I brought my vid-cam in the car , so why not give it a shot ? Hey 3 was good number . The so called bloggers gathering was attended by Me , Yvonne , and Tom …more of a tiny yum-cha session . The shooting however went on very well . Even the staff of the restaurant where we shot it, were used as spectators .

Yvonne , Tom and Me trying to open the files we just filmed …with no luck of course ( I’ll get to that in a while )

The next meet up was supposed to be a discussion of what to do , but ended up to be a short take . Hannah Tan , her super sweet friend Jessica and Reymee from the famed Innuendo came for the `pit-stop ‘ . The shoot also went on fantastically . Unexpected , impromptu …that’s the way how magic should be . I din’t have a cameraman nearby at that time and hell was I going to use a waiter as a cameraman . Tom was kind enough to rush from Westin KL to lend me a hand . Thanks TOM ! It was very casual , like 5 friends chatting while sipping a cup of coffee .

Reymee , Me , Hannah , Tom and lovely Jessica

With an industrial nail I just bent during the shoot .

Another one of the clip was shot during JED’s surprise birthday party . This was held at Pavillion KL and involved a huge group . I also met many new friends at the gathering and want to thank Smashpop and Rames for helping me out on the arrangements . Thanks guys ! The people at the party were simply a hell of a nice bunch and a few of them , shot their own clips of me performing . I promise I’ll get them soon , and post it up .

A picture stolen from Rames’s blog , with most of the attendees

Now for the pathetic bad news . Most of the clips were already shot , HOWEVER ( and this is a BIG however ) , I spent almost 2 whole freaking days trying to reformat those blardee clips to AVI or Mpeg format . I just read on the internet that this is a UNIVERSAL problem faced by SONY DVD cam recorders . SHIT man ! I have great clips but can ‘t edit them because the DVD cam saves them in a weird format called M2TS ! I have even passed the clips to the web designers in charged of building the new events webbie , and even they can’t do it ! I have just asked for the help from my friend , MIKE YIP who does video editing as a profession , and pray to GOD that this problem will be solved by this weekend . On another note , I will definitely show you the clips when the editing is done .Believe me , even the raw version exceeds my expectations .

Well thats all from me now I guess . Work work work is all that there is for me now !

Have a crazy weekend guys !

-David Lai